How to build momentum in your novels and stories: a podcast interview with...
Literary agent Jeff Kleinman, a recent guest at the Columbia Fiction Foundry, recommends these tips from writer Lee Child ("The Killing Floor", "The Enemy", the Jack Reacher series of thrillers). To...
View ArticleQuery Shark - an excellent resource
Janet Reid is an agent who will mercilessly tear apart query letters. Right now there are 277 queries (many revised several times) with her brutal honesty about what works and what doesn't:...
View ArticleEvents of Interest--Upcoming Early in 2016 (not sponsored by CFF)
Aspiring fiction writers, mark your calendars! Several exciting events featuring novelists talking about craft are coming soon, and most are free. Jenny Offill, author of 2014's acclaimed Dept. of...
View ArticleUpcoming Event: A Conversation with Folio Literary Management
What do literary agents want? You’ll have an opportunity to learn from three of them on May 18th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, when Erin Harris, Jeff Kleinman, and Dado Derviskadic of Folio Literary...
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Jack Burger on How-To Books
The Long and the Short of How-To Books for the Writer - Three ExamplesWhy read books about writing when you could actually be doing it? Maybe they have suggestions that will make it easier to write or...
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Video of Greer Hendricks Interview
If you missed Ralph White's March 14, 2018 interview of author Greer Hendricks, here's the link to the video.
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2018 IPPY Gold Novelist—Amy Blumenfeld
On October 17 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., novelist Amy Blumenfeld will be featured in a guest speaker event to be held in the Shapiro Room of the Columbia Alumni Center. Amy Blumenfeld won the 2018 Gold...
View ArticleThree Online Resources For Fiction Writers
CFF member Edward Evans recommends this website featuring several authors' writing tips: Open Culture. The site's daily emails are frequently interesting too.CFF member Jennifer Kitses recommends this...
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Columbia Fiction Foundry Member Catarina Abreu Interviews Julieta Almeida...
September 25, 2020CA: Congratulations, Julieta, on publishing Eleonora and Joseph. Passion, Tragedy, and Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment. I was present at most of the Columbia Fiction Foundry...
View ArticleCFF Members Published in Fall 2021!
DAY OF DAYS, Frank Napolitano (Toren James Publishing, Sept. 2021)THE SERPENT PAPERS, Jeff Schnader (The Permanent Press, Jan. 2022)POETRY MEMOIRS, Mary Freericks (Amazon)MY INDUSTRIOUS NEXT-DOOR...
View ArticleColumbia Fiction Foundry Member Jeff Schnader Publishes Debut Novel with The...
My Pilgrimage to Publication of the novel, The Serpent PapersBy Jeff SchnaderThis is an abridged version of the article published in Bookscover2cover. For the full, unabridged version, see:...
View ArticleThis Month's News From Columbia Fiction Foundry
VIRTUAL FICTION FOUNDRY PREPARES FOR SOFT LAUNCH
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CFF Founding Member Ralph White Publishes Debut with Simon & Schuster
CFF Co-founder and past president Ralph White’s memoir, Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese, published by Simon & Schuster, launches in April 2023. Praised as “an...
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The Latest News from Fiction Foundry
–Frank Napolitano’s historical novel, Day of Days: September 11, 2001, A Novel of the Fire Service, published by Toren James in 2021, was recently named a “Distinguished Favorite” by the Independent...
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CFF Members in the News
The Latest News from Columbia Fiction Foundry members:--Margaret (Margie) Winslow was named a finalist for the 2023 Debut Dagger Awardsponsored by the Crime Writers Association (UK), which is presented...
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Fiction Foundry Open House (with Pictures)!
On Saturday, October 14, Columbia Fiction Foundry hosted our second annual Open House. The event was combined with a hybrid in-person/Zoom Annual Meeting at the newly refurbished Alumni Center at 622...
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Columbia Fiction Foundry Meets Live! & News from Our Members
On December 2nd, Columbia Fiction Foundry hosted our first hybrid in-person/Zoom workshop since before COVID. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long! It was wonderful to read and discuss manuscripts,...
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